Entrance Gateway to Abbey Cemetery
ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO ABBEY CEMETERY, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Abbey Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO ABBEY CEMETERY, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394603
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Abbey Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO ABBEY CEMETERY, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO ABBEY CEMETERY, RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7581363743
Details
RALPH ALLEN DRIVE
656-1/56/1359 Entrance Gateway to Abbey Cemetery
GV II
Gatepiers and gates in a free Gothic manner. 1844, probably by G.P. Manners.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, timber and cast iron.
Two gate piers with original gates and door between. The piers, on plinths, have roll mouldings to corners in form of engaged quarter columns with bases and capitals; on top are two-stage coped caps. The right hand pier is of double width as it serves both the main gates and the pedestrian entrance to the right. The double carriage gates comprise timber frames in five rows each (four to pedestrian gate), with two-panel lower sections beneath upper sections with cast iron decorative infill containing cruciform motifs.
Rears of piers have roll-moulded shafts to corners as well.
HISTORY: Abbey Cemetery was one of the three cemeteries to be laid out by John Claudius Loudon, the great guru of early Victorian landscape design, and is the best example of his specific theories on cemetery design, fusing a formal lay-out with informal planting. It was designed in 1843, and was among Loudon's last projects. Laid out on land formerly belonging to the Prior Park estate, it was opened for use by the Bishop of Salisbury on 30th January 1844, and survives remarkably intact. The cemetery is now in the guardianship of Bath City Council. These gates are in the same position as those marked on Loudon's original plan of 1843, and lead to a long rising drive, flanked by boundary wall and embankment, which leads directly to the heart of the cemetery. The attribution to G.P. Manners, the City Surveyor, is based on the fact that he designed the other cemetery structure here, the Mortuary Chapel (qv).
These gates underwent extensive restoration in c.1990, when the wooden gates were renewed, incorporating the original ironwork and door furniture.
Listing NGR: ST7581363743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 510001
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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